Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

POSSUM RUN Mrs. E. A! Merrill was a Gifford goer Friday. Sam Cavinder and son Reesa called on T. J. Parker Sunday morning. Mt. Conley of near Newland called on T. J. Parker Saturday morning. Mrs. William Hurley and daughter Goldie were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill spent Saturday evening with T. J. Parker and family. Mrs. T. J. Parker and son Charley and daughter Myrtle were Monon goers Wednesday. « William Markin and daughter spent Tuesday evening with T. J. Parker and family. Johnnie Johnson of Monon spent from Saturday until Wednesday with T. J. Parker and family. Mary Cunningham and Pearl Davis spent Saturday night and Sunday with Orpha and Myrtle Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Ores Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. James Davis and family spent Sunday with T. J. Parker and family. LEE Mrs. Stella Holeman and children of Monticello spent Sunday here with relatives. Miss Thelma Noland left Wednesday morning for a few days’ visit with friends at Valparaiso. There was quite a number went from here to Reynolds Sunday afternoon to watch the Liberty Guards drill. Mrs. Frank Overton and two daughters and Mrs. J. H. Culp called on Mrs. James Cassell Tuesday afternoon. O. A. Jacks and wife took Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eldridge to Uncle Tommie Eldridge’s in Monon Sunday afternoon. S. M. Jacks and wife and Joseph Clark and wife went from church Sunday to William Jacks'! near Rensselaer for dinner. Mrs. G. A. Jacks returned from Lafayette Monday, where she had . been taking treatment for rheumatism, having been helped some. Miss Lural Anderson and Miss Agnesi Stiers spent Tuesday afternoon calling in the neighborhood of Parr, where they both taught

schobl last winter. > H. C. Anderson and wife and his brother, Lewis, and Miss Lural motored to Attica last week and made a short visit with Mrs. Maggie Hoover, who came home with them for a visit. MILROY Frank May’s were guests of Thomas McAleer’s Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Lear visited her sister, Mrs. Mitchell, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Dunn entertained her sister and husband Sunday. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Lear. W. B. Fisher's and Mr. Wilson's visited Battle Ground and Lafayette Sunday. Mrs Fred Saltwell and daughter, Mrs. Lud Clark, spent Monday in Rensselaer. Miss Leona Ogle spent Saturday night and Sunday with Lon Wood and family. Earl Foulks and family attended the Children’s day exercises at Black Oak Sunday evening. Mr. Wilson and family of Terre Haute spent Saturday night and Sunday with the Fisher family. Miss Sophia Clark entertained a large number of friends Sunday. A pleasant day was enjoyed by all. The Ladies Food club met at the church Wednesday afternoon and held their first meeting. They will •meet again July 10 at 2 p. m. Let all remember the date. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Brown and Clyde Clark and family of Newton county, Mr. and Mrs. Roy v nlp. Edith, Ralph and Gladys Clark, Miss Rishling. Charles McCashen and Earl Foulks and 'imilies spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs George Foulks. GIFFORD Several from here seen the boys off to training camp Tuesday. Little Timmie Haniford took dinner with George Lambert’s Tuesday. William Obenchain has begun paddying on the railroad for Tim Haniford. Samuel Davis of Rensselaer spent Saturday and Sunday visiting relatives here. The little babe of Mr. and Mr.s.

Charles Scott is on the sick list at this report. Dora Smith of this place is helping Silas Toombs this week on the farm near Rensselaer. Sylvia Grim, Ethel Nuss and Gladys Smith called on Sylvia and Hazel Lambert Sunday. Church services Sunday evening, July 7, by Bert Warne of Fair Oaks. Everybody come out. Mrs. Ellen Hancock and granddaughter returned home Monday from Chicago, after a two weeks’ visit. “Grandma’’ Steele, who has been suffering for some time from cancer of the stomach/ passed away Tuesday night. Miss Beatrice Caster, who has been attending high school at Gary, returned home Saturday, her school closing Friday. Jesse Nuss and wife, Tim Haniford and daughter Elsie and Ernest Nuss and wife attended camp meeting at Anderson last week. Gaylord Hilton and Clarence Zook, -two more of our popular young men, were* called to the colors Tuesday. Go to it, boys, and get Kaiser Bill. Mrs. Hazel Zook and little son came here Wednesday from Kewanna, Illinois, to see her husband off to training camp. Mrs. Zook wafe formerly Miss Kersey. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Haniford and son. Mr. and Mrs, Earl Parker and> children, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Norris and children called on-Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Hankins Saturday evering. ZADOC Mr. Dooley is having a tool house made. An uncle of Lawrence McDaniel is a guest at his home at this writing. The farmers are harvesting wheat and rye this week and the prospects are very good. Many from here attended the entertainment at the Primo at Wheatfield Sunday evening. Mike Misdh has (purchased a splendid team of mules from Joe Hickam of Wheatfield. All crops at this writing are badly, in need of rain, especially early potatoes and gardens. Blackberries, raspberries and huckleberries are drying up on the vines, which means empty cans this winter. Miss Fern Goin, who is taking business training in Soutli Bend, called on relatives and friends here Sunday. People here were sorry to hear Sunday evening of the complete destruction by fire of the beautiful residence of Mrs. Stembel of Wheatfield. It caught fire from the fireplace, wh«re*-she had built a small fire.More beans were planted this year than ever were known before. Every farmer has from a large patch to several acres. If beans will win the war, as they tell us,

. / we will surely be victorious at harvest time. Mrs. Bert Vandercar and children went to Baum’s Bridge Wednesday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bush, and to see the new house nearing completion, which they are building where the old one burned down some time ago. The frost Saturday night did considerable dajmiage, especially in the low ground, where it put the corn back a fortnight or more. High ground corn and truck patches suffered in places, and many are lamenting over the watermelons, which in places are entirely killed. The writer’s family recently received cards from Corporal Louis Misch, of Camp Sherman, Chillicothe Ohio, and WillianT A. Custard of Nitro, West Virginia. Both are in training for Uncle Sam's service. They write that they are well and very busy. We are always glad to hear from our soldier friends.

FA 111 OAKS The weather still continues very dry. There has been a few cases of tons! litis in put town the past weekr Wheat and rye harvest begun the first of the week and will be rushed through quite rapidly. W. S. McConnell is getting his haying tools together and will start in a few days up in Lake county. Dr. Rice was called Tuesday to see Rev. Downey’s little girl. lie said there were symptoms of spinal meningitis. F. R. Erwin got in another carload of coal the first of the week. It was all sold off the car, and still there are several that have not coal yet for winter use. We had a few cold nights last week and on Saturday night a frost which done thousands of dollars damage to corn. Hundreds of acres of corn were killed, Trustee Hammerton came up Sunday to view the new school house, but as the contractor had gone home and taken the key with him, he was unable to gain entrance. Enos Moffitt, who went to Montana last week to his homestead, returned t<s Fair Oaks Saturday. Ho says that the part of the state where he was is burned out, so he returned. County Superintendent Sterrett has set the day for dedicating the new" school house and holding the commencement on August 3. Superintendent L. N. Hines, Republican candidate for state superintendent to succeed Superintendent,Ellis, will speak. The people of Union township are desired to take hold and do their part and come out and listen to this distinguished gentleman and show their appreciation of what is being done for the education of our children. There was quite a lively and

might have been a serious runaway i one morning the latter part of the 1 week. .John Walstra, who lives on ’section 32 of the Otis ranch, came to town to get a bunch of milk leans. He had his three little children with him, and he drove up to I the Kight Eggleston store and ! jumped out, laid the lines down i preparatory „to going in and doing | some trading, and at that moment I the team made a dash for home, with the children and cans in the spring wagon. They ran a mile I back home where they ran into a shed and broke the tongue out, but tte kiddies stayed in clear through and never cried a whimper until they were taken out, when they begaif.